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PATRICK MARMION reviews The Comedy About Spies at the Noel Coward Theatre: A head-spinning winner, spy spoof hits comedy gold


A Sixties spy spoof that is like Johnny English meets Basil Fawlty in a Piccadilly hotel. It's bigger, better and more brilliantly bungling than ever.

They strike comedy gold in their latest caper: a Sixties spy spoof that is like Johnny English meets Basil Fawlty in a Piccadilly hotel. Or failing thesp Douglas Woodbead (an orotund Henry Lewis), in town to audition for a new Bond film – despite being best known as the face of haemorrhoid cream on TV. An undercover French farce running through four bugged bedrooms, a lobby, roof gardens, a lift shaft and a laundromat, it’s more complex than prime number theory.

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